User talk:Dusty Rhodes

Title screens
Hi, original size title screens don't have the correct aspect ratio, and are a bit too small nowadays. We always 320x200 to 640x480. Also, your choice of license was non-standard, and the title screens category was missing. Pointing this out so you can take it into account for future uploads. Perhaps you can fix Magenta Spire? Thanks. --Xymph (talk) 15:15, 10 December 2022 (CST)

Oh, Gregor beat you to the punch, but didn't upload it as a new version of your screen. If you don't mind, I'll just delete your version tomorrow. Edit: And... nevermind, Quasar didn't ask. ;) --Xymph (talk) 15:37, 10 December 2022 (CST)


 * I saw this; I just considered it taken care of since a corrected version is already up. No sense in uploading yet another one. --Quasar (talk) 15:41, 10 December 2022 (CST)
 * Yeah, i didn't know the titlepic was already uploaded. There wasn't one earlier but afterwards i only checked again whether a full article was already up. My bad. --Gregor (talk) 16:01, 10 December 2022 (CST)

Hey Xymph, sorry about the confusion with the titlepic lumps. I'll keep the licensing and size in mind in the future. Hope it wasn't much of an issue. Anyway, I'm also wondering how to get stats for wads, like the little map images, the demo times and all that. Congrats on the Espi!

-Dusty


 * Thanks! Unfortunately you and Gregor both had the same idea about which WAD to tackle, so now there are two articles covering the same thing. Since Gregor's is using the official title of the mod, I propose to merge relevant content from yours into that, whereafter yours could be deleted since it is not even properly capitalized, so has no use as a redirect either.
 * Map articles, layout images (which can be huge, btw), etc. are something you normally don't want to do manually - that's where XymphBot scripts come in. Just wait until I've gotten around to them.
 * Going forward, if you and Gregor are both are going to create more overview articles, I strongly recommended coordinating and dividing up the work. That also goes for any other contributors, like Endless and whoever is trampling to storm out of the gate. We've never experienced this situation before, AFAIK, so I guess it is a luxury, but duplicate work benefits no-one. --Xymph (talk) 17:00, 10 December 2022 (CST)

The Magenta Spire article
Hi there. There seems to have been a bit of confusion regarding the magenta spire article. I didn't check for your titlepic before uploading mine and apparently you didn't check for the article itself before uploading yours. You see, i already created this article for The Magenta Spire before you created yours. Now we have two. Since one should suffice I would invite you to just edit the article i created with all the info you have.

Ah well this is a bit embarrassing. Yes, please delete my article and I'll simply edit the other. My bad! Thanks for the help. I'm going to take a little break and come back in a bit to see what I can help out with.

-Dusty


 * Okay, after discussion with Dynamo on IRC we decided to move the larger, more complete article to the correct path. Gregor's is archived for reference in their user space. The main space one can now be brought up to wiki standards. --Xymph (talk) 17:23, 10 December 2022 (CST)

New articles creation
Thanks for creating the page for The Magenta Spire. However, one word of advice. If you want to create pages for a WAD, you should check if there's anything that links to it. In the case of recent Cacoward winners, if you go to the Cacowards 2022 page, you will see there's redlinks of just about everything there already: all you have to do is click on one of them and it'll take you to the edit page, this ensures you have the right name for the article of whatever it is you're writing for.

Cheers! --Dynamo128 (talk) 17:14, 10 December 2022 (CST)
 * In addition, when one editor already created said article, another will see that when trying to create it from the redlink too, and instead be led to the edit the newly existing one. --Xymph (talk) 17:23, 10 December 2022 (CST)